Bec
@teadrinker@aus.social
Tea witch; writer and editor; keen on planetary survival; PhD (Australian steampunk and the environment); parent; gardener and friend of pets. Grew up on a farm, still feel the land in my bones. Menang Country/South Coast, Western Australia #gardening #hiking #academia #writing #editing #kindness #nature #environment #climate #dogs #food #cats #agriculture #permaculture #reading #books
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Cool crow* thing that happened the other day, and which I just remembered:
So the backstory is that sometimes the crows (ravens) like to nick off with our chooks' eggs, and honestly I'm OK with it because I love how cheeky and clever they are, and they don't take many eggs. The other thing you should know is that our chooks are free-range-ish in a fenced off section of the garden, which (for now) is secure around the edge but open to the sky.
It's a few weeks until the chooks will start laying but the crows live around our area and I often will say hello to them when we're out walking.
And then the other day, we were walking up the street towards our house and I saw a bird gliding high up above and I thought it was a pelican, but then I saw the silhouette of the head and realised it was a hawk! And then! a crow/raven appears from the right, and not only starts harassing the hawk, but also caw-caw-caaawing to its family members, and they are on the job straight away, and within seconds, the hawk has left the vicinity of our chooks and the crows see it off -- we could almost hear them saying, 'And stay out!'
I'm thinking that the crows were protecting our chooks -- not because they care about the chooks themselves, so much as they care about the eggs the chooks will start laying soon!
Crows. So great :)
*apparently the ones around here are ravens, but they seem to not care that I call them crows
#crows #ravens #birds #ThingsILove
